Tuesday, December 23, 2014

The longest awaited event, almost seen as the most
impossible pipe dream, took place when it was least expected.

On December the 17th, a quite pointed date for the Cuban’s
folklore, Barak Obama, President of the United States of America, and Raul
Castro, president of the Council of State and Ministers, first secretary of the
Communist Party of Cuba, and head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, announced
simultaneously from their respective capitals the resumption of diplomatic
relations between both governments.

Diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba were
interrupted for almost 54 years. On January 3, 1961, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower had decided to close the US embassy in Havana following the signing
of the trade agreement between Fidel Castro and the USSR.

The announcement came as a surprise, as the explosion of the
Maine battleship, the sinking of the Lusitania, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the
events of the Gulf of Tonkin, or the kamikaze style assault on the Twin Towers.

Anyway, any clever observer could have seen it coming.

During the last year and a half, since June 2013, there have
been intense and not so secret negotiations between Havana and Washington.
Their mediators were the Vatican -under the aegis of a Latin American pope with
great affection for the Theology and Liberation- , and Canada, one of the
eternal economic and political friends of the Castro’s regime.

In the meantime, the US government exempted Cuba from the
list of countries sponsoring terrorism.

Last May the 20th, a letter from the most influential
figures in the US asked President Obama to ease relations with Cuba. David
Rockefeller -one of the most important designers of the political and economic
world map- led the signatories. At his nearly 99 years, he seems to continue
leading the circle of the worlds’ financial and political elite from the
Council Foreign Relations -the world's most influential Think Tank-, the
Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the
Bilderberg group, the Trilateral Commission and others. (In this blog, we have
attempted to investigate the long and close relationship between Fidel Castro
and David Rockefeller.)

Recently, several The New York Times’ editorials on Cuba
predicted that something big was brewing in political backroom.

And suddenly, without Vaseline or saliva, Obama’s and Raul’s
simultaneous announcement took place, with an affectionate and extensive
telephone call between them.

Now, why this announcement of the restoration of diplomatic
relations has been so hasty?

Everything happened as if both presidents hurried up to
prevent anyone to get in the way and unsettle everyone involved historically in
the Cuban question. And also, why exactly now?

From a the most immediate and superficial point of view, one
of the most rational hypothesis on this hasty decision by President Obama would
be, first, that he wished to overtake the first session of the 114th United
States Congress next January 3, 2015, dominated by a Republican majority, which
would have hampered any presidential decision.

Anyone could argue that Obama would have had sufficient time
in order to make such announcement in advance. However, what both sides seem to
have been waiting was the only actual event which gave the green light to the
restoration of diplomatic relations. I mean the death of Fidel Castro, or at
least its final fall into an irreversible coma.

I am absolutely sure that the Commander in Chief’s
metagalactic ego and the hipertrascendental importance that he has always given
to his "prestige", "charisma" and "intransigence"
would never have allowed him to accept alive a reversal of what he have devoted
his whole political career:the
perpetuation of the showdown between the small “David” island and the American
global "Goliath" "Imperialism", the greatest enemy that
anyone has faced ever. However, this doesn’t mean that we believe that Fidel
has actually been an honest, consistent and uncompromising nationalist,
revolutionary, communist and anti-imperialist to the grave, in the manner of an
Amadis of Gaul, the Cid or San Jorge by the feeling of the Hispanic nobility
ideal that had lived deep inside of Cubans’ spirits.

The psychology of the dictator, demonstrated throughout his
long political behavior, marked by an unconscionable egomania, egocentricity
and hipper-self-esteem, would never ever allow him to admit what he always was.
Fidel Castro had always been a mafia thug who found a way to transcend local
and national circles to become an international agent provocateur at the
service of global domination powers. Consequently, Fidel Castro has been the
worst traitor of everything he has pretended to defend throughout all his life.

Fidel betrayed his own political movements of the
Orthodox-Cuban Revolutionary Party and the 26th of July Movement, colluding
with the Popular Socialist Party agents of Moscow. Castro betrayed the Cuban
revolution, aimed at the restoration of democracy and the rule of law in Cuba,
by establishing the worst and longest tyranny throughout Latin America history.
He betrayed his country, handing it to the Soviet Union. In behalf of all this,
he destroyed his country, its nature, its infrastructure, its economy, its
institutions and traditions, plunging his people into the most abject poverty
and the worst state of slavery.

Now, why would Obama wanted to reestablish the relations
with Cuba? What is the urgency? What lies beneath his pressing need?

Cuba is the most impoverished and unproductive country in
the Western Hemisphere.

For the United States and its government, Cuba doesn’t have
any economic or political or military interest. It has been long since it
ceased to be the appearance of a threat to US homeland security. Perhaps now
the only obstacle to a mass exodus of Cubans to the United States is the
impoverished Castro regime, but this has always been so, and it is not
necessary to restore diplomatic relations and lift the embargo to keep it that
way.

It is true that several American presidents before Obama
explored the possibility of restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba and lift
the embargo. It is also true that, every time any US president has made a
gesture in this direction, Fidel Castro has always done some dirty tricks to
confirm the impossibility of any negotiation. Why this would not happen again?

Nothing has changed in Cuba, especially under the
"mandate" of Raul Castro.

The so-called "reforms" of the
"government" of Raul Castro have not gone beyond reviving the old
"openings" from his Big Brother from the eighties and the nineties,
when he allowed a limited self-employment, and the so called "free"
farmers’ and artisans' markets as the one at the Cathedral Square and elsewhere.
The only “extraordinary” thing has been the alleged authorization of sales of
houses and cars. However, this is not a reform itself but another dirty trick
play. In Cuba, only the government has all the resources to legally restore
large mansions and collection cars. Thus, the government itself can sell
expensive buildings and cars through its undercover agents who pretend be
"private owners", giving an appearance of openness.

Although Cuba has been deleted from the list of countries
sponsoring terrorism and diminished its influence in Africa and the Middle
East, the Castro’s’ government continues destabilizing countries in Latin
America. He still influences governments as the ones of Nicaragua, Honduras,
Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, not only against its own people, but
especially against the United States. The Castro regime has not stopped
supporting Colombia's narco-terrorist groups and, no doubt, in other countries,
like when it was the guideline head for Latin America, Africa and the Middle
East terrorist movements.

Moreover, they same people that currently govern Cuba have
always represented a greater threat to America than Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, North
Korea, Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State all together. Cuba was the only
country that actually has threatened the US with a nuclear attack and helped
destabilize Latin America and much of Africa and the Middle East. The Cuban
regime also flooded US of spies at the service of all enemies of this country.

The Cuban regime remains being a strictly designed
government to avoid the establishment of democracy, the rule of law and civil
society, and against the individual, civil and human rights. The only way to do
this was through erasing all the country’s economic, social, democratic and
non-governmental institutions. This has led to the total destruction of the
economy, the natural resources, the technology, the infrastructure, the
national traditions, etc. The centralized economy has led to the disappearance
of all industrial, agricultural and commercial activity of the island,
something that the US embargo hasn’t anything to do with.

Contrary to those who believe that the everlasting economic
crisis of the Island is the largest "failure" of the regime, in fact,
it is his highest achievement.

The Castro government has strictly followed the Stalinist
basic guidelines to keep the population in the most impoverished situation in
order to ensure their full economic, political and ideological dependence from
the state. Thanks to the national economic and social disaster, the Castro’s
regime could impose a state of a perfected widespread slavery in Cuba, in the
same fashion of the Stalin's Soviet Union, the Mao Zedong’s Communist China,
the Kim Il Sun’s North Korea, the Ho Chi Min’s Viet Nam and the Khmer Rouge’s
Cambodia.

The alleged American commercial "embargo" or
"blockade" has not influenced the industrial and infrastructural
collapse of Cuba. Since 1961, when the Soviet Union subsidy to the Castro
government began, until 1991, when the communist bloc disappeared, colossal
amounts of financial and technology aid were sent to the Island in behalf of
its industrial and infrastructural development. Fidel Castro's government
squandered all those resources in terrorist propaganda and adventures worldwide,
leaving huge industrial complexes to disintegrate in wastelands where they were
left to rot when they were not resold to countries led by their accomplices.

Today, since its sugar industry was dismantled, Cuba has
become a country that produces almost nothing. It only produces negligible
amounts of citrus, tobacco and rum that the country exports thanks to its
former prestige but its quality has decayed totally with respect to the times
of his old world glory.

Tourism has depressed significantly since its heyday in the
nineties, when almost two million of low budget tourists visited the island
annually.

Castro’s government survives thanks to the subsidies from
Venezuela -re-selling great deal of the oil that the semi-colonial government
of Maduro sends to Cuba-, Brazil, China, Spain, Russia and the food bought
directly in the US, where agriculture is generally highly subsidized by the
American taxpayer. But this is nothing new, since Castro's government has
survived historically squeezing his cronies as it did with the Soviet Union,
Angola, Chile, Nicaragua, Canada, Venezuela, Spain, every Latin American and
African narco-terrorist group, and the unwary investors who had the brilliant
idea to do business with Castro in the 90s.

The restoration of relationships comes in one of the most
difficult times for the Cuban dictatorship.

The welfare-protector state had already collapsed after the
fall of the USSR. For the last twenty years, the Castro government has been
unable to even offer the usual rationed products and the most basic utilities,
medical attention, education, etc. to the Cuban population.

The fall in oil prices has strained one of his props, the
Maduro's dictatorship in Venezuela, a situation reflected roughly in the Cuban
economy.

The misery and despair of the Cuban people have reached its
limits. Every day, the population has reached the point of not having anything
to lose and shows its open rejection of the Castro government.

The struggle of dissidents has intensified and repression
has worsened significantly.

Illegal migration have increased, compelling the government
to resume the old methods of attacking the fragile rafts at sea at the expense
of the lives of migrants, so that the US government don't get the idea that a
new mass exodus is taking place.

It seems as the Obama administration wanted to give a hand
to the suffocated Castro regime in the very moments of the disappearance of its
fossilized leader, the only actual mainstay of the Cuban regime.

In the end, if the restoration of diplomatic relations
between the US and Cuba has been a hasty and pointless act, the news just makes
me think -rather confirms- that the story of the dispute between the US and
Cuba has been a major political farces in history.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

LAST MINUTE: ROCKEFELLER TO THE RESCUE OF CASTRO (AGAIN)

Today, May 20, we celebrate 112 years since the proclamation
of the independence of Cuba, issued by the U.S. government after ruling the
island for four years after the withdrawal of the Spanish colonial government
in 1898.

Taking advantage of the event and giving it a more emotional
ideological character, a group of “private” individuals " (as it says on
the tagline of the document signed by them), published an open letter to
President Barack Obama in which they requested his personal support and
influence as chief executive in favor of what they call "civil
society" in Cuba.1

The definition of "civil society” is somewhat elusive.
Many legal scholars and academic, financial and governmental organizations and
institutions have struggled with the definition since Aristotle.

Civil society generally is distinguished as one that is
established without any commercial purpose, or at least not purely commercial.

Alexis de Tocqueville identified "civil society"
as the set of voluntary social organizations and civic institutions which act
as mediators between individuals and the state. This definition therefore
includes both, non-profit organizations or non-governmental organizations,
associations and foundations. The nineteenth-century concept also included
universities, professional associations and religious communities.

The World Bank has adopted a definition of civil society
developed by a number of leading research centers: “the term civil society to
refer to the wide array of non-governmental and not-for-profit organizations
that have a presence in public life, expressing the interests and values of
their members or others, based on ethical, cultural, political, scientific,
religious or philanthropic considerations. Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
therefore refer to a wide of array of organizations: community groups,
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), labor unions, indigenous groups,
charitable organizations, faith-based organizations, professional associations,
and foundations”.2

For the United Nations, civil society organizations are
non-governmental organizations or NGOs . 3

1. Despotism : State terror that
discourages the formation of any group between society and government.

2. Revival of the tradition of
republican civic virtues:. Qualities of moral value or principle established by
a number of rules to obey.

3. Specific Forms of nationalism:
the triumph of the rule of the majority and the total assimilation in order to
form an ideal society.

4. Totalizing ideologies

5. Essentialist cultural ideals:
social cells that determine the function and value of each individual in
society.4

Such list should sound very well known by Cubans, especially
those who live or have lived most of their lives on the Island.

In summary, in Cuba since Fidel Castro took power, there is
simply impossible the existence of a civil society.

Communism is a perfect society. It is perfectly designed to
eliminate any possibility of democracy, rule of law, civil rights and civil
society,

Since its complete creation in the USSR by Stalin, all
institutions, organizations, or item and each of the individuals under the
communist empire, are state property.

Communism is the perfect modern system of total slavery.
Other ancient societies with features of total slavery had no such perfection.
Ancient Egypt, Babylon, ancient China, India Persia allowed trade and
partnership between individuals and some economic, and informational
independence. However, the communism designed by Stalin (and applied by Mao
Zedong, Kim Il Sung, Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot in its most brutal form) leaves no
window to independence and personal initiative of any kind.

The Case of Castro's Cuba is no exception.

The Communist Party and its repressive institutions keep
tight control on each activity, group and individual.

All the so called NGOs in Cuba are directly or indirectly
controlled by the Communist Party: cultural, religious, sports, hobbies
organizations, and even animal breeding groups, whatever. Even the dissident
and opposition groups are particularly penetrated and organized secretly from
institutions in the Central Committee of the party and the state security.

Even it is sad to say that most, if not all , the opposition
groups in exile have been penetrated at some point and are constantly
penetrated by Castro's intelligence covertly, pushing many of its actions in
support of communist government propaganda.

Those who do not want to recognize this does not understand
the nature of the communist regime installed by Castro in Cuba.

I do not mind that Cuban exiles help their families on the
island. In fact, is a way to save their lives given the critical shortage of food,
hygiene products, clothing, appliances, medicines, medical services and the
most basic construction, infrastructure, sanitary and social security of any
type.

Sending remittances to relatives in Cuba and, above all,
bring them to the U.S. is the way of saving their lives.

However, remittances are not the main Castro’s profits, but
his huge family business that he has secretly developed in the United States
and the rest of the world under enormous overlapping network of shell
companies, sheltered under the protection of international financial
organizations.

The profits of these companies are great support of Castro,
along with subsidies from his allies such as Russia and China, and its
semi-colonies as Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, etc.

The letter to Obama is a desperate call to save the
suffocated Cuban government.

Its "signers" ask the U.S. President to use the
powers at his disposal in order to evade the law of Cuban embargo, so hard to
repeal in Congress, as they recognized though.

They ask Obama to allow organizations and entrepreneurs to
travel to Cuba in order to develop commercial and financial activities with
micro-entrepreneurs and "independent” farmers, and to give licenses to
certain high-tech products so they can be exported to Cuba as it is done now
with agricultural goods. They also ask allow unlimited remittances of money to
non-family members.

These gentlemen are well aware that not one of these
financial and technological resources will never reach the Cuban people and
will remain with the government, which uses them for its survival, especially
now that the country has reduced to total dependence on subsidies from its
allies.

Cuba has been reduced to a country without economic means,
like sugar citrus, tobacco, nickel or other. Even tourism. Cuba does not
produce any goods or services at all. Its only means came from the exportation
of terrorism specialists and political interference in other countries such as Venezuela,
Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador , etc. .

Giving a break to Castro’s government right now is criminal
and genocidal.

And who are the signatories and promoters of this letter?

There are not representatives of the opposition in the
country or in exile, or democratic or human rights organizations.

Tucked amid the multitude of signatories, it is no less than
David Rockefeller.

The patriarch of the Rockefeller clan, ninety- nine years
old, still comes out of his retirement of years to rescue his best friend Fidel
Castro (see article in this blog " CUBAN CONSPIRACY ( DOS) : CASTRO AND
ROCKEFELLER " in
http://havanaschool.blogspot.com/2010/09/la-conspiracion-cubana-dos-castro-y-los.html).

Rockefeller is followed by a number of his old comrades of
the Council on Foreign Relations, which, despite being general and senior U.S.
government officials, they have responded to the call from his boss in aid of
the only man who has threatened to drop the bomb atomic in the U.S. territory,
has promoted terrorism and interventionism throughout the world, supports all
hostile governments to the United States and has filled his northern neighbor
with spies.

Your
administration has taken several important steps to support the Cuban people by
opening travel for Cuban-American families, expanding remittances, and enabling
purposeful travel for more Americans. Those policies have fostered direct
contacts between the United States and the Cuban people, provided a lifeline
for average Cubans, and empowered Cuban civil society. As a result, Cuban
society and U.S. society are sharing more information and are more connected
today than in the past fifty years.

Now
more than ever the United States can help the Cuban people determine their own
destiny by building on the U.S. policy reforms that have already been started.
Such efforts would seek to provide openings and opportunities to support the
Cuban people in their day-to-day economic activities, and in their desire to
connect openly with each other and the outside world and to support the broad
spectrum of civil society, independent, non-state organizations created to
further individual economic and social needs irrespective of political
orientation. Doing so not only promises to deepen the contacts between the U.S.
and Cuban society, it will also help Cubans increase their self-reliance and
independence. But timing matters and this window of opportunity may not remain open
indefinitely. At the same time, the U.S. is finding itself increasingly
isolated internationally in its Cuba policy. In the current political climate
little can be done legislatively, but the Obama Administration has an
unprecedented opportunity to usher in significant progress using its executive
authority at a time when public opinion on Cuba policy has shifted toward
greater engagement with the Cuban people while continuing to pressure the Cuban
government on human rights.

The
undersigned members-individuals from the private sector, think tanks,
non-governmental organizations, and foundations- acknowledge and appreciate the
steps you have taken to improve U.S. - Cuban relations.

We
further propose the following recommendations that you, Mr. President, can take
through executive authority to deepen the changes already underway by giving
greater freedom to private organizations and individuals to directly and
indirectly serve as catalysts for meaningful change in Cuba.

1.Expand and safeguard
travel to Cuba for all Americans

1.Expand general licensed travel to
include exchanges by professional organizations, including those specializing
in law, real estate and land titling, financial services and credit,
hospitality, and any area defined as supporting independent economic activity.

2.Expand travel by general license for
NGOs and academic institutions and allow them to open Cuban bank accounts with
funds to support their educational programs in Cuba.

3.Authorize U.S. travelers to Cuba to have
access to U.S.-issued pre-paid cards and other financial services-including
travelers' insurance-to expand possibilities for commerce with independent
entrepreneurs and safeguard people-to-people travel.

2.Increase support for
Cuban civil society

1.Allow unlimited remittances to
non-family members for the purpose of supporting independent activity in Cuba
and expand the types of goods that travelers may legally take to the Island to
support micro-entrepreneurs.

2.Establish new licenses for the provision
of professional services to independent Cuban entrepreneurs.

3.Authorize the import and export of
certain goods and services between the U.S. private sector and independent
Cuban entrepreneurs.

4.Allow U.S. NGOs and other organizations
to lend directly to small farmers, cooperatives, self-employed individuals, and
micro-enterprises in Cuba.

5.Permit family remittances to be used as
credits or equities in Cuban micro-enterprises and small farms.

7.Allow for Cuban entrepreneurs to
participate in internships in U.S. corporations and NGOs.

8.Promote agricultural exchange studies
between U.S. based NGOs and private cooperative farms in Cuba.

9.Authorize the sale of telecommunications
hardware in Cuba, including cell towers, satellite dishes, and handsets.

10.Authorize general travel licenses for
the research, marketing and sale of telecommunications equipment.

11.Authorize telecommunications hardware
transactions to be conducted through general license in the same manner as
existing transactions for agricultural products.

3.Prioritize principled
engagement in areas of mutual interest

1.The Obama Administration should engage
in serious discussions with Cuban counterparts on mutual security and
humanitarian concerns, such as national security, migration, drug interdiction,
and the environment, among others. The United States should leverage these
talks to press Cuban officials on matters such as the release of Alan Gross and
on-going human rights concerns.

4.The Obama
Administration should take steps to assure financial institutions that they are
authorized to process all financial transactions necessary and incident to all
licensed activities.

John
Adams, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Retired); former Deputy U.S. Military
Representative to NATO; former Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for
Intelligence, U.S. Army

Ricky
Arriola, CEO of Inktel

Joe
Arriola, former Manager of the City of Miami

Bruce
Babbitt, former Governor of Arizona; former Secretary of the Interior

Harriet
Babbitt, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States

Carol
Browner, former EPA Administrator; former Director of White House Office of
Climate Change and Energy Policy

Diana
Campoamor, President, Hispanics in Philanthropy

Paul
Cejas, former U.S. Ambassador; President and CEO, PLC Investments, Inc.

Gustavo
A. Cisneros, Chairman , Cisneros Group of Companies

Jeffrey
Davidow, former Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere

Byron
Dorgan, former U.S. Senator

Andres
Fanjul, Fanjul Group

Richard
Feinberg, former Latin American Advisor to the White House; Professor,
University of California, San Diego

Christopher
Findlater

Mike
Fernandez, Chairman of MBF Healthcare Partners

The
Right Reverend Leo Frade, Episcopal Bishop of Southeast Florida

Pedro
A. Freyre, Partner, Akerman LLP

Dan
Glickman, former Secretary of Agriculture; former Congressman from Kansas

Lee
Hamilton, former U.S. House Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Jane
Harman, Former Congresswoman

David
Hernandez, Co-Founder and CEO of Liberty Power

Vicki
Huddleston, U.S. Ambassador (retired); former Chief of the U.S. Interests
Section; former Director of Cuban Affairs at Department of State